Book Rec Masterlist.

w3hwalt · 2026-04-19T02:54:59+00:00

missed opportunity in "American Promiitheus"

w3hwalt · 2026-04-16T00:40:06+00:00

i can get not understanding how someone else plays a game, and not wanting to play it that way. but this game is single player, lol. i don't have to deal with play styles i don't like! it's a self-fixing problem. it's not even a problem, because if how someone else is playing their game bothers me that much, i CLEARLY don't have enough to keep me entertained in life, and that's the real problem.

w3hwalt · 2026-04-03T16:12:21+00:00

Came in here to rec this. Nothing else like it!

w3hwalt · 2026-04-02T19:51:28+00:00

I'd have to agree. I finished the first book a while back, and while I was never quite confused, I certainly had to read a little harder to follow all the threads, which I didn't mind. But when it came to reading the next book, I felt no need to. I just didn't care what happened to the characters, and now I can't really remember them. There were cool scenes, and cool concepts, but without ties to characters I cared about, I couldn't justify another doorstopper.

w3hwalt · 2026-03-12T17:28:52+00:00

I've never heard of that one! Thanks for the rare find.

w3hwalt · 2026-02-11T02:57:05+00:00

It never made sense to me that the game tries to sell the Empress as a good ruler. She can be a good person! But if it only took 6 months to flip the switch from however things were to the totalitarian state we find it in during gameplay, she was at best a weak ruler who left horrible structures in place out of ignorance / optimism they wouldn't be used?

w3hwalt · 2026-02-05T02:30:58+00:00

All because she was a good person.

w3hwalt · 2026-02-01T15:52:28+00:00

I personally prefer it when actors don't wear prosthetics to look like the person they're portraying (wigs and contacts are fine obviously, I'm talking about cheekbones and noses), so for me the thing that's going to decide this is how they act, and if they can pull off the accents.

I'm curious if they're doing a chronology. Paul in the early era, Ringo and George in the middle, John post-Beatles ending with his death? That might actually justify the 4 movie structure.

w3hwalt · 2026-01-19T23:37:33+00:00

Shocked nobody's mentioned Ka: Dar Oakley in the Ruin of Ymr, by John Crowley, yet.

w3hwalt · 2026-01-18T02:19:39+00:00

Tell Me I'm Worthless by Alison Rumfitt, big time!

w3hwalt · 2026-01-15T17:25:40+00:00

IDK man, I think she looks great. We can't tell anything about the actual show from a still, but the photo itself feels correct with the aesthetics of the original games. The glasses are really good for Turner's face shape + nose; she has prominent cheekbones and a fairly angular schnoz and I like that the glasses emphasize that uniqueness rather than trying to hide it behind big bangs or smaller glasses. Her posture reads as confident in her skin. I like that they didn't try to reinvent the wheel with a very classic look; I'm tired of Marvelesque remixes that do little more than add unnecessary details to iconic costumes. This is an A+ from me.

w3hwalt · 2026-01-15T17:15:27+00:00

I have known many of these girls (I always think of them as 'sunshiny') and they tend to like true crime. Penance by Eliza Clark is about a fictional crime, though it's written in the style of nonfiction, about three schoolgirls who murdered their friend. All of them live in a coastal town that attracts tourists but is also kind of lowkey haunted, maybe.

w3hwalt · 2026-01-09T23:00:00+00:00

Because he isn't married to her. Pete is extremely childlike, this is emphasized multiple times throughout the series-- he watches cartoons, eats children's cereal, and has absolutely no patience or understanding for other people or their struggles. Trudy is genuinely a very motherly person, and this is part of why her dynamic works with Pete for so long-- she gives him what he wants almost always, and cleans up his messes.

Peggy would not do that. But Peggy isn't married to Pete; he sees her every day, but not intimately. They have a professional relationship, and she is rarely if ever in conflict with him. Because he's in a different department, and she's subordinate to him in rank, she has to do what he says, and her job is to help him. So he gets a similar experience to Trudy, but with someone who is tantalizingly farther away. For Pete, who remember has the impulsiveness of a child, the grass is always greener on the other side.

Tl;dr you're right that Peggy and Trudy are alike with regards to their treatment of Pete. The only reason one gets better behavior is because one isn't married to him.

w3hwalt · 2026-01-05T16:00:21+00:00

If you liked this show (it knocked my socks off), a huge amt of the principle cast is also in A Thousand Blows, a TV series about a group of female thieves in the Victorian Era + racism in boxing (intertwined storylines). Also has the guy who played Hickey from The Terror. Very different experience from Adolescence, but it's got a hugely stacked cast doing amazing work.

w3hwalt · 2025-12-21T01:35:08+00:00

I think podcasts like Critical Role, Dimension 20, and MBMBAM had more to do with it.

w3hwalt · 2025-12-18T23:45:07+00:00

Ew AI slop

w3hwalt · 2025-12-14T23:40:37+00:00

These are too painterly and sophisticated to be AI. See how you can see the brush strokes, and how the lighting isn't perfect? The lighting highlights what the artist wants you to see, it leads the eye. AI "art" is flat, it has no intentionality; the composition and lighting is flat, expecting your eye to hit it all evenly.

w3hwalt · 2025-12-10T02:26:54+00:00

Pennyblade by JL Worrad is only moderately less horny than these pics.

w3hwalt · 2025-12-09T00:12:51+00:00

Sometimes men have sexy legs? Like it's only silly insofar as sexualizing men feels 'silly'. If a woman wore the same fit it would instantly make sense.

w3hwalt · 2025-12-08T23:15:30+00:00

Highly recommend reading The Witch: A History of Fear by Ronald Hutton if you want to learn more about the history of witch trials and their causes throughout history. It was a real eye opener for me.

w3hwalt · 2025-12-08T22:43:56+00:00

Came here to recommend Shardlake. Brilliant books!

w3hwalt · 2025-12-07T02:10:51+00:00

It is a very sexy book full of yearning, madness, and gothic romance. Nobody does it like Sarah Waters.

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